Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Spain and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Guru Guru to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Eli Mardock,
the Bar-Kays,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Saccharine Trust,
Albert Ayler,
Patti Smith,
Eric Copeland,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Monochrome Set,
Supertramp,
Bad Manners,
Marine Girls,
Ten City,
the Sonics,
The Cowsills,
Yellowson,
John Cale,
The Beau Brummels,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kenny Larkin,
Eve St. Jones,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ponytail,
Reagan Youth,
The Slits,
Vladislav Delay,
Jimmy McGriff,
Q and Not U,
Pierre Henry,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Matthew Bourne,
The Offenders,
Con Funk Shun,
Althea and Donna,
ABC,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Electric Prunes,
Sam Rivers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jeru the Damaja,
Andrew Hill,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Monolake,
Television Personalities,
Janne Schatter,
Swell Maps,
Max Romeo,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Victims,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Robert Hood,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Walker Brothers,
Cybotron,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Hasil Adkins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.